Central Desktop’s Social Technology Platform Joins the Intuit App Center

PASADENA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Central Desktop today announced its leading software-as-a-service social technology platform is now available at the Intuit App Center, providing Intuit’s 4 million small business customers with the ability to interact, share and manage their daily work activities from anywhere at any time. Using Central Desktop’s Web-based collaboration solution, QuickBooks® 2010 customers can improve project management and maximize team productivity to increase revenue.

“We’re excited to offer Central Desktop’s software-as-a-service collaboration tool in the Intuit App Center,” said Alex Chriss, director of the Intuit Partner Platform. “By featuring solutions like Central Desktop, we’ve giving our small business customers access to applications that help solve everyday business challenges.”

With no software or hardware to install, Central Desktop allows small business owners to effectively and efficiently organize, share and collaborate on projects using only a Web browser. Central Desktop offers a full suite of collaboration tools, including wikis, document sharing, task management and shared calendars. Central Desktop also recently added a fully integrated micro-blogging tool that allows users to post their status and syndicate their updates out to other social networks like Twitter and Facebook.

“In this economy, small business owners are in need of a comprehensive collaboration solution without the high enterprise resource requirements and steep costs,” said Isaac Garcia, CEO and co-founder of Central Desktop. “Central Desktop is an affordable, easy-to-use alternative that allows users to better communicate and share information within a single online environment, resulting in higher efficiency and better workflow management. We’re thrilled to extend these business process improvements and cost savings to Intuit’s small business customers.”

The Intuit App Center is featured in QuickBooks Pro and Premier 2010, providing users access to scalable, software-as-a-service business applications directly from within QuickBooks. The applications featured in the Intuit App Center help users grow their businesses, reduce costs and manage workflow and customers.

For a free 15-day trial of Central Desktop, please visit the Intuit App Center at http://workplace.intuit.com/AppCenter/moreInfo.aspx?AppID=3237.

About Central Desktop

Central Desktop delivers a pure software-as-a-service (SaaS) social technology platform that allows next-generation business teams to communicate and collaborate more efficiently. Easy to implement and scalable for small and medium-sized businesses, Central Desktop allows business teams to interact, share and manage their daily work activities from anywhere at any time. Key Central Desktop customers include the Humane Society, CBS, U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, Avid Technology, Omniture, Gymboree, InterContinental Hotels Group and the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Founded in 2005, Central Desktop is a privately-held company with headquarters in Pasadena, California. For more information about the company, visit http://www.centraldesktop.com.

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